Livingston County farm leader highlights digesters, warns solar and overtime changes threaten dairy economics A presenter from Noblehurst Farms described local farm scale, a methane digester that takes 15,000 tons of food waste per month and said Livingston County agriculture generates roughly $300 million in sales. He warned that solar land conversion and a phased overtime law lowering the threshold to 40 hours by 2032 could squeeze margins.

Livingston County's dairy industry is under pressure from solar developments and changing labor laws, threatening its $300 million agricultural economy.

Read the full story

#LivingstonCounty #NY #CitizenPortal #RuralUrbanBridge #LivingstonCountyAgriculture #DairyEconomics #RenewableEnergy

And we are in Double Digits! #Episode10 of #EconomistsUnplugged is here with the amazing #BettyBerning who talk about her love of #Math & #Calculus, and how she used those to develop her career in #Agribusiness & #DairyEconomics.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWAm...

#WorkLifeBalance #Economics